Meta layoffs 2023: Mark Zuckerberg weighs in on WFH vs office work in email

In his recent letter to Meta employees when Mark Zuckerberg announced a fresh layoff of about 10,000 staff, the CEO also highlighted that as per the company's analysis, employees who worked from the office fared better than those who worked remotely.

While he did not specify whether the analysis will affect remote employees in the second round of layoffs, Zuckerberg said that it's easier to build trust in-person and that those relationships help the company work more effectively.

"Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely," Zuckerberg stated in his letter.

"This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week. This requires further study, but our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person and that those relationships help us work more effectively."